{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1904-05-23/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What the Whitsuntide Festival symbolises, the underlying principle from which it receives its deep inner meaning, is preserved in a single manuscript copy[^6] which is to be found in the Vatican Library, where it is guarded with the greatest care. To be sure, no mention is made of Whitsuntide in this manuscript, but it certainly tells of that for which Whitsuntide is only the outer symbol. Hardly anyone has seen this manuscript, unless he has been initiated into the deepest secrets of the Catholic Church, or has been able to read it in the Astral Light.[^7] One copy is possessed by a personality who has been very much misunderstood in the world, but who is beginning to interest today's historians. I could equally well have said ‘was possessed’ instead of ‘is possessed’, but it would thereby cause a lack of clarity. Therefore I say again: a copy *is* in the possession of the Count of St. Germain,[^8] who is the only existing source of information about it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Whitsuntide—Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-05-23","location":null,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1904-05-23/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. Wood","identified_edition":"RSP1985","book_title":"The Temple Legend","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093/English/RSP1985/19040523p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93/1904-05-23/p008"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1904-05-23/p008","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Eine Kopie davon besitzt eine Persönlichkeit, welche von der Welt sehr verkannt worden ist, die aber heute für den Geschichtsbetrachter anfängt interessant zu werden. Ich könnte auch ebenso sagen «hat besessen» statt «besitzt», aber es entstände eine Unklarheit dadurch. Deshalb sage ich: eine Kopie besitzt der Graf von Saint-Germain, von dem wohl die einzigen Mitteilungen stammen, die es in der Welt davon gibt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93/1904-05-23/p008"}],"english":["GA 93/1904-05-23/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":150,"en_words":167,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.47,"band":"fuller_than_original","note":"This witness is longer than the original — paraphrastic or padded. That makes it a less faithful witness to wording, not a more complete one. 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